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N0. 624,l78. Patented May 2, 1399.

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GEORGE M. CLARKE, OF ROCHESTER, NElV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO VFAVER,

PALMER &7 RICHMOND, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR 'r-IOOPING WOODEN VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 624,178, dated May 2, 1899. Application filed November 12, 1898- berial No. 696,230. (No model.)

To (Ml whom it may concern; V gular metalplate or body,which,together with Be it known that I, GEORGE M. CLARKE, a the part B, constitutes a hoop proper for the citizen of the United States, residing at Rochvessel. The connecting-piece G, preferably ester, in the county of Monroe and State of made of firm sheet metal or malleable iron,

New York, have invented a new and useful is longer than it is wide and wider than the 55 ImprovementinDevices forHooping WVooden strip '13 and is formed with a central trans- Vessels, which improvement is fully set forth verse'opening 71, through which the ends of in the following specification and shown in the the metal strip are passed when the hoop is accompanying drawings. beingformed. This openingis slightlylonger My invention relates to means forhooping than the width of the metal strip and wider 6owooden vessels or similar vessels made up of than twice the thickness of said strip,so that staves or parts joined; and it consists of a both ends of the latter may pass through the strip or band of metal bent to form a hoop for opening and occupy it together. such vessel, with a part for connecting the In forming the opening h the metal of the 15 adjacent ends of the hoop. In this device the plate is pressed upward or outward, which 65 strip of metal forming the hoop is not pierced part thus pressed out forms a raised bridge a. or punctured or formed with indentations or This part or bridge a is cut clear of the originotches of any kind, it being simply bent or nal plate 0 at the sides, but left attached or doubled back upon itself at its ends. uncut at the ends, the plate when thus formed Theinventionishereinafterfullydescribed, being a single piece and without detached 70 and .more particularly pointed out in, the parts. The bridged israised sufficiently high claims. to leave openings 1) b at its sides to receive Referring to the drawings, Figures 1 and 2 through them the respective ends of the strip show, respectively, the outside and inside 13, as shown in Figs. 3 and 8. The bridge faces of the connecting-piece for the ends of covers the opening h and also the adjacent 75 the band or hoop. Fig. 3 showsthe adjacent parts of the strip B when bent around the ends of the hoop bent in place in the connectopposing edges of the wings c c of the plate ing piece or holder, a part of the latter being 0. This connecting-piece O is curved transbroken away. Fig. 4 shows the inner face of versely to correspond to the curvature of the the holder and the bent ends of the hoop. vessel A, to which it is to be applied. 80 Fig. 5 shows an edge View of the ends of the i The metal strip B when in place on the conhoop and the holder, the adjacent part of the necting-piece C rests against the outer survessel being horizontally sectioned at the edge face of said piece or upon the upper surfaces of the holder. Fig. 6 is an end View of the of the two parts or wings a c at either side of holder for the hoop, the latter being crossthe opening h, with its ends 1' bent or turned 85 sectioned as on the dotted line 6 6 in Fig. 3. backward beneath said wings, as appears in Fig. 7 is an end view of the holder, the hoop Fig. 8. The edges (Z d of the wings are bent being omitted. Fig. 8'is a longitudinal secdownward or depressed longitudinally, as aption of parts, taken on the dotted line 8 8 in pears in Figs. 6 and 7, forming longitudinal Fig. 9. Fig. 9, drawn toasmaller scale, shows chambers or depressions e e in the inner face 0 the adaptation of the device to thevessel. of the plate in which to receive the inwardly- Referring to the drawings, A is a wooden turned ends 2' of the metal strip. The inner vessel, such as a tub or pail, or, it may be a faces g g g g of the depressed edges are in barrel or other similar device slightly tapered line or even with the respective inn er surfaces 5 or flaring for the purpose of receivingmetallic of the inturned ends of the metal strip. The 5 binding-hoops. bends at the edges dare offset bendsthatis B is a simple strip of hoop metal, 0 being to say, the surfaces 9 are parallel with the a connecting-piece or holder for the ends of original surface of the plate 0 or the upper said metal strip when the latter is bent to a surfaces f f of the wings. The depths of the circular form. The piece 0 is a thin rectan- I chambers e 6 being equal to the thickness of mo the metal strip, the latter is completely cov ered or hidden from view Where occupying said chambers, the surfaces g meeting and resting against the outer surface of the staves of the vessel, as appears in Fig. 5.

In applying this device to the vessel to be hooped one end of the strip B, first cut to the required length, is passed through an opening b at oneside of the bridge and inward through the opening h and bent or doubled back upon itself, as shown in Fig. 8. In making this bend the strip is carried around the inner edge of a Wing c of the plate 0 under the bridge, said Wing engaging and holding the strip against a longitudinal pull or stress. The strip is then carried or bent around the vessel at the place it is to occupy and marked parts of the latter passing over the outside of the plate C.

WVhat I claim as my invention is r 1. A connector struck from a single piece of metal and comprising an apertured plate, a raised bridge covering the aperture, and depressed longitudinal edges, said connector having a slight longitudinal curvature, substantially as specified.

2. The combination with a hoop, of a connector comprising a plate having a transverse aperture and a bridge above the aperture, the longitudinal edges of the plate being depressed along their entire lengths, the ends of the hoop being passed through the aperture and bent under the plate in opposite directions between the depressed edges, the under faces of the hoop ends and depressed edges lying in the same plane, substantially as specified.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 8th day of November, 1898, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- GEORGE M. CLARKE.

Vitnesses ENos B. WHITMORE, M. L. WINSTON. 

